History and culture: Regularly renewed exhibition “Catherine II. The Golden Age of the Russian Empire” opens at the “Tsaritsyno” Museum-Reserve

Regularly renewed exhibition, "Catherine II. The Golden Age of the Russian Empire" opens at the "Tsaritsyno" Museum-Reserve. Opening of the exhibition project will take place on November 3, 2015 at the Grand Palace and will be held in the framework of the "Night of Arts."

The exhibition project is devoted to the main character of Tsaritsyno, Empress Catherine II. This exhibition of the Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno" represents a new genre of exhibiting the museum's collection and a new way of arranging the museum space.

The project consists of three parts: a permanent exhibition, an exhibition of one object in the form of a "museum tour" and a multimedia educational program worked out in conjunction with a regular partner, humanitarian online project Arzamas, which is rapidly gaining popularity on the Internet. Each part of the project will be regularly updated.

The exhibition telling the story of the way of the Princess Sophia Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst to the Russian throne and her 34-year reign occupies four halls of the Grand Palace. It features the engravings and documents, portraits, furniture, porcelain, weapons, numismatics and household items of the time from the collections of the State Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno."  

Many exhibits will be displayed for the first time. The peculiarity of the exhibition is that it will continue to develop due to modern methods of exposure of graphic works that will give a "close-up" of particular details. An important part of the exhibition is the "Timeline" tracing the chronology of the life of Catherine II in different aspects.